Tag: Music
Artist Rutherford Chang really likes the Beatles’ 1968 self-titled album, colloquially known as the “White Album.” So much so, in fact, that he’s amassed over 650 first-pressings of the record, and is actively seeking more with “We Buy White Albums,” his new exhibit at Recess Gallery. Chang has established an “anti-store” for the album, in […]
In his latest video, for no-nonsense M.I.C. Tyson cut “Genesis of the Omega,” Sean Price dons lumberjack gear, takes to the woods, and chops shit up while an innocent-looking, hogtied girl fearfully looks on. P never actually does the deadly deed, but the grindhouse vibe lends the video a violently grimy feel. […]
From now until April humpback whales will gather off the coast of Hawaii for mating season. In hopes of attracting their counterparts, males will sing their beautiful, eerie songs, with long, complex, repeating melodies that can last for hours on end. Since 2003, Hawaii’s Jupiter Research Foundation has been dropping waterproof microphones 60 feet into […]
“I believe the artistic and cultural implications for this project, if completed, would be immeasurable,” writes “filmmaker” Daniel Nadolny of his latest endeavor: a biopic of the ’90s bro-rock favorites the Spin Doctors featuring Daniel Stern, the non-Joe Pesci burglar from Home Alone, in the lead role. Great! The only problem? Nadolny isn’t actually a filmmaker […]
Jeff Slatnick, the luthier and business owner behind Greenwich Village’s iconic Music Inn, wanted something he couldn’t find in any of the international string instruments he stocks in his shop, so he decided to make his own. What he came up with was the electric zarod, an instrument that sounds to the untrained ear like […]
Take eight floppy disk drives, some MIDI software, an Arduino, and a little programming know-how, and you’ve got yourself a personal, polyphonic orchestra. At least, if you’re YouTube user MrSolidSnake745, you do. SolidSnake programs his eight little drives to perform music by systematically altering the speeds at which they run. “The concept behind this is basically […]
“As I started developing my collection, it became visually obvious that there is a trend for this genre,” says Brooklyn designer Josh Smith of his digital library of indie music. “I actually began to get confused and clicked on the wrong album, thinking it was a different band.” Keeping some of those trends in mind, […]
Straphangers riding a Q train in Brooklyn were recently privy to an entertainment spectacle unlike any other. In addition to sitting front row for a breakdance performance, riders were exposed to an ol’ timey choreographic routine from the Emerald Isle. Explains comedian Tyler Fisher in an email: Below is a video where I joined a […]
This one is almost too meta: the poet laureate of nighthawks and renegades everywhere teams up with Captain Jack Sparrow’s father to record a cover of a 150-year old sea shanty. But it’s real! And it’s awesome. Frequent collaborators Tom Waits and Keith Richards recently recorded a stirring version of “Shenandoah,” a beautiful mid-19th-Century folk song. […]
The Thin White Duke himself returned today with his first new music in 10 years, the somber piano ballad “Where Are We Now?” The track is accompanied by a bizarre, impressionistic video in which a balloon-headed David Bowie sits with another unnamed person and croons as the song’s lyrics and scenes from the singer’s famously […]
